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  • Solve-It!: Puzzles and Challenges
    Date: 12/01/1996
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    This project is composed of a 1,500 square foot permanent, and traveling exhibit, and a schools program focused on problem- solving, targeted primarily for children in grades 5-8. The exhibit includes a variety of classroom-tested puzzles, interactive computer programs, and hands-on challenge problems. These will enable participants to try and ... »
  • SCIENCE FRIDAY
    Date: 12/01/1996
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    National Public Radio (NPR) has been awarded a grant of $807,335 in declining amounts over a four year period for production of Science Friday, the weekly two-hour call-in radio show that deals with science topics. Over the four year period, NPR will make an increasingly larger commitment to the total budget of $1,763,768 until they assume total ... »
  • Museum Visitor Preferences and Intentions in Constructing Aesthetic Experience
    Date: 11/01/1996
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    Visitors to art museums vary on a number of a dimensions related to how they construct their museum experience. The visiting preferences and intentions of a sample of visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art were examined by having them respond to a survey as they entered the Museum. Visitors were presented with a set of nine contrasting ... »
  • Informal Education and Evolution: Considering Religious Beliefs
    Date: 11/01/1996
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    In this article, Stephen Bitgood, of Jacksonville State University, discusses evaluation efforts to assess people's understanding of evolution and to determine what type of messages might be most effective in communicating evolutionary theory. This article focuses on one aspect of their findings--the relationship between attitudes toward evolution ... »
  • Impediments to Learning from Labels
    Date: 11/01/1996
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This article summarizes the various factors that can impede or compete with learning from exhibit labels. These impediments include novelty of surroundings, object satiation, competing sights and sounds, lack of orientation, and too much time and effort to get the message. ... »
  • Assessing the Readability of Label Text
    Date: 11/01/1996
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This article discusses the challenge of assessing the readability of labels. Two solutions to this problem are offered and briefly summarized: apply readability formulas to the text or obtain visitor input. ... »
  • Alternative Conceptual Approaches to Label Development
    Date: 11/01/1996
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This article cites two ways one can approach designing labels in informal learning settings: tie learning style to label design or the Denver Art Museum Approach (bridge the gap between novices and experts and design labels that "make a human connection"). ... »
  • Comprehension
    Date: 11/01/1996
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This article discusses how visitors make sense of information from exhibit labels and the variables that influence how visitors comprehend. ... »
  • Social Learning
    Date: 11/01/1996
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This article reviews how group variables (social interactions) play a role in museum learning as well as how exhibit variables influence group learning. Exhibit developers are encouraged to incorporate these findings into label development. ... »
  • Memory Processes
    Date: 11/01/1996
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    This article discusses memory processes: concepts for enhancing memory and types of memory. Studies cited relate to how memory processes influence visitor interaction with exhibit labels. ... »

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